Timeline for Guess if a time is AM or PM
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| May 9, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | Bent | And you may have to have a different interpretation for "let's have a meeting in 10". | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 11:03 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 13, 2011 at 21:53 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | Even if there's a standard for this (I don't know of one), any solution is going to guess wrong in some cases. "Let's have a conference call at 7:00" is going to be ambiguous in a transnational company, for example. In an interactive system, you can ask the user for clarification, or at least make the default visible. If you're processing user input with no opportunity for feedback, there will be mistakes. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:29 | answer | added | joshx0rfz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:18 | comment | added | rownage | I'm interested to see some answers here. I feel like it would be beneficial to have some flexibility in your parser that reflects different "business hours", if you will. e.g. if it's marked somewhere that a company is open from 9-8, or a time zone difference prohibits the possibility of one party meeting at 7 am, then you know. Kind of makes you realize how ambiguous humans are in their language. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:18 | answer | added | Jonathan M | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:15 | comment | added | Tom Zych | "Documentation" = "an opinion that someone wrote down and distributed". | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:13 | comment | added | Vivien Barousse | @Tom: That's why I asked for documentation on the problem, and not opinions :) | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:12 | comment | added | Tom Zych | Very subjective and context-dependent. No exact answer possible. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 18:10 | history | asked | Vivien Barousse | CC BY-SA 3.0 |